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Forum: FLUENT July 16, 2014, 21:27

Replies: 40 32 CPUs Workstation V.S. Cluster for Fluent Views: 11,059 Posted By Anna Tian I'm around the middle of the range you provide. I... I'm around the middle of the range you provide. I will have around 32 cores. I think there is another advantage of using the '8 connecting individual tower workstations cluster'. This is just my...

Forum: FLUENT July 16, 2014, 20:58

Replies: 40 32 CPUs Workstation V.S. Cluster for Fluent Views: 11,059 Posted By Anna Tian Yes. It is usually not a good investment to fast... Yes. It is usually not a good investment to fast CPUs for CFD applications. But I just realized that the CPU Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 with 4 3.7 GHz cores and max memory bandwidth 59.7 GB/s only sells...

Forum: FLUENT July 16, 2014, 08:12

Replies: 40 32 CPUs Workstation V.S. Cluster for Fluent Views: 11,059 Posted By Anna Tian Hi Kaskade, If i follow ghost82's advice and... Hi Kaskade, If i follow ghost82's advice and build cluster by connecting 8 workstation, I guess in this way the cooling will be quite good per CPU. Then I can choose CPUs with many strong cores,...

Forum: FLUENT March 3, 2014, 04:34

Replies: 40 32 CPUs Workstation V.S. Cluster for Fluent Views: 11,059 Posted By Anna Tian Thanks for your information. What do you mean?... Thanks for your information. What do you mean? You mean the license problem?

Forum: FLUENT February 18, 2014, 09:46

Replies: 40 32 CPUs Workstation V.S. Cluster for Fluent Views: 11,059 Posted By Anna Tian Thanks for your information. I gain a basic... Thanks for your information. I gain a basic feeling on that. It is quite some cost per year if we keep the machine running.

Forum: FLUENT February 18, 2014, 07:37

Replies: 40 32 CPUs Workstation V.S. Cluster for Fluent Views: 11,059 Posted By Anna Tian Is it mainly driven by the number of CPUs? Or... Is it mainly driven by the number of CPUs? Or cooling device?

Forum: FLUENT February 18, 2014, 06:20

Replies: 40 32 CPUs Workstation V.S. Cluster for Fluent Views: 11,059 Posted By Anna Tian Have anyone computed the power cost of the... Have anyone computed the power cost of the cluster? Is the electricity cost a significant part of the overall cost of hardware? Of course this depends on the electricity price. But how many watt? I'd...

Forum: FLUENT February 17, 2014, 13:25

Replies: 40 32 CPUs Workstation V.S. Cluster for Fluent Views: 11,059 Posted By Anna Tian Regarding the liquid cooling, is liquid cooling... Regarding the liquid cooling, is liquid cooling important? Is it expensive? We can place it in another room so that we won't be disturbed by the noise from the machine if air cooling is used. Any...

Forum: FLUENT February 17, 2014, 10:37

Replies: 40 32 CPUs Workstation V.S. Cluster for Fluent Views: 11,059 Posted By Anna Tian You go with Windows only for the price reason? I... You go with Windows only for the price reason? I read on this forum that linux is better on the memory usage.

Forum: FLUENT February 16, 2014, 06:28

Replies: 40 32 CPUs Workstation V.S. Cluster for Fluent Views: 11,059 Posted By Anna Tian I'm quite fresh to the enterprise linux area.... I'm quite fresh to the enterprise linux area. What I understand from the link you provide is as below. 1. Linux is open for one computer. But if it is connected to another computer (no matter it...

Forum: FLUENT February 16, 2014, 05:00

Replies: 40 32 CPUs Workstation V.S. Cluster for Fluent Views: 11,059 Posted By Anna Tian Yes. I found hardware companies may sell it,... Yes. I found hardware companies may sell it, including HP. But they are mainly for the server, not for scientific calculation, like CFD. I never saw anyone mentioned there is a this large workstation...

Forum: FLUENT February 15, 2014, 07:21

Replies: 40 32 CPUs Workstation V.S. Cluster for Fluent Views: 11,059 Posted By Anna Tian I just checked the other threads on this forum.... I just checked the other threads on this forum. It seems that it will be much more expensive if you want to build a cluster with good data exchange speed between CPUs. Why don't you just choose to...

Forum: FLUENT February 14, 2014, 09:48

Replies: 40 32 CPUs Workstation V.S. Cluster for Fluent Views: 11,059 Posted By Anna Tian I will check the size on the market with the... I will check the size on the market with the workstation stores. Maybe we will be running into building a cluster. Is there any tutorial on how to build a cluster? We're totally fresh on this.

Forum: FLUENT February 14, 2014, 09:27

Replies: 40 32 CPUs Workstation V.S. Cluster for Fluent Views: 11,059 Posted By Anna Tian No that much big machine on the market? I once... No that much big machine on the market? I once heard about workstation with 32 CPUs but I never checked it online. Intuitively I think it could be quite big and as heavy as me. I don't understand...

Forum: FLUENT February 14, 2014, 09:01

Replies: 40 32 CPUs Workstation V.S. Cluster for Fluent Views: 11,059 Posted By Anna Tian Hi, I'm planing on a workstation with 32... Hi, I'm planing on a workstation with 32 CPUs and each of them have 4 cores. So there are 128 cores in total. Sorry that 120 is a tempo. I have corrected that. I'm planning on having at least...

Forum: FLUENT February 14, 2014, 04:32

Replies: 40 32 CPUs Workstation V.S. Cluster for Fluent Views: 11,059 Posted By Anna Tian 32 CPUs Workstation V.S. Cluster for Fluent Hi, We are going to purchase hardware for a CFD department. Fluent and ICEM are used. We will have 32 CPUs (128 cores) to support our simulation. And 2 CFD people will use it. I'm wondering shall...

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